Park Min-young | |
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Park Min-young in June 2011
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Born |
Seoul, South Korea |
March 4, 1986
Other names | Rachel Park |
Alma mater | Dongguk University - Theatre and Film |
Occupation | Actress and Model |
Years active | 2005–present |
Agent | Culture Depot |
Korean name | |
Hangul | 박민영 |
Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Bak Min-yeong |
McCune–Reischauer | Pak Min-yŏng |
Park Min-young (Hangul: 박민영; born March 4, 1986) is a South Korean actress. She is best known for her leading roles in the television dramas Sungkyunkwan Scandal (2010), City Hunter (2011), Glory Jane (2011), Dr. Jin (2012), Healer (2014-2015) and Remember - War of the Son (2015-2016).
Park Min-young made her entertainment debut in an SK Telecom commercial in 2005. She launched her acting career a year later in the hit sitcom Unstoppable High Kick! (2006). Her popularity rose in the next several years as she continued to appear in television dramas, in roles such as the only daughter of a notorious gangster in I Am Sam (2007), and a gumiho (nine-tailed fox in Korean mythology) in an episode of horror-themed drama Hometown of Legends (2008), She got the supporting role as a villainous princess in the period drama Ja Myung Go (2009), and a girl caught between two marathon runners in Running, Gu (2010).
But Park's breakthrough came with the 2010 drama Sungkyunkwan Scandal, a coming-of-age drama in which her character, an intelligent and resourceful young woman, disguises herself as a boy in order to enter the most prestigious learning institution in Joseon, while growing close to three male classmates played by Park Yoochun, Yoo Ah-in and Song Joong-ki. Later in 2010, Park became the face of Anna Sui Cosmetics in Korea.